Zelda Williams Returns To Social Media While YouTube’s PewDiePie Turns Off Comments Forever

If you think you’re seeing more stories about people being jerks or otherwise getting up to criminal mischief online, you’d be right. But it’s not because it’s happening more often, it’s because more people are taking a stand against it.

Whether you’re a celebrity, internet celebrity, or a regular surfer of the old world wide web, you’ve either witnessed harassment taking place or have been harassed yourself. As I said in my post about the recent photo theft, the internet is a cesspool.

Sarkeesian, and many others, are fighting the uphill battle against harassment and victim blaming. According to her, the most recent came from the police. You know, the ones who are supposed to fight crime.

Police: If you keep getting these threats for your work why don’t you stop? – Me (incredulous): Um… because I believe it’s important.

Meanwhile, YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, has decided, “screw it, I’m done with comments!” It’s something Sarkeesian did away with on her YouTube videos long ago and something her detractors have railed against specifically and will not let go, claiming freedom of speech. Which, you know, is not how that works.

He says, “I go to the comments and it’s mainly spam, and people self-advertising, it’s people who are trying to provoke, people who reply to all these, just all this stuff that to me, it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t care about it. I don’t want to see it. I just don’t care.”